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Tetsuya Yamagami

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Tetsuya Yamagami (Japanese: 山上 徹也, Hepburn: Yamagami Tetsuya; born 10 September 1980) is a Japanese man who has admitted to assassinating Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, on 8 July 2022. A resident of Nara, he was arrested at the scene of the assassination. He was 41 years old, had no prior criminal history, and was unemployed at the time of his arrest. His criminal trial began in Nara on 28 October 2025. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 14 different languages on Wikipedia. Tetsuya Yamagami is the 301st most popular extremist, the 3,513th most popular biography from Japan and the 6th most popular Japanese Extremist.

Tetsuya Yamagami is most famous for assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022. He used a homemade firearm to carry out the attack during a campaign speech in Nara, Japan.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Tetsuya Yamagami ranks 301 out of 283. Before him are Amy Fisher, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Ahmed al-Ghamdi, Khader Adnan, Hakimullah Mehsud, and Jimmy Chérizier. After him are Ajmal Kasab, Monster of Florence, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Sarabjit Singh, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and Majed Moqed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Tetsuya Yamagami ranks 909. Before him are Rina Aiuchi, Victoria Koblenko, Érik Boisse, Anna Calvi, Jason McCaslin, and Przemysław Niemiec. After him are Ioannis Tamouridis, Syahrini, Leonardo Duque, Svetlana Abrosimova, Víctor Núñez, and Titi Buengo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tetsuya Yamagami ranks 3,520 out of 6,245. Before him are Ayumi Fujimura (1982), Kei Yamaguchi (1983), Mitsunori Yabuta (1976), Yasushi Matsumoto (1969), Yuko Ogura (1983), and Kenji Inoue (1976). After him are Nami Tamaki (1988), Norio Suzuki (1984), Hitomi Yoshizawa (1985), Takeshi Yonezawa (1969), Takashi Kojima (1973), and Fubuki Kuno (1989).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Japan

Among extremists born in Japan, Tetsuya Yamagami ranks 6. Before him are Issei Sagawa (1949), Sada Abe (1905), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), Tsutomu Miyazaki (1962), and Hiroshi Maeue (1968). After him are Takahiro Shiraishi (1990).

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